This piece began with sun dyeing muslin using Dye-na-Flow, cut paper shapes, and plant material [read: weeds!] from my yard. It’s a fun, quick and easy process. A fellow art quilter loaned me a wonderful Fred B. Mullet fish stamp that I applied with black and gold textile paints.
As I worked on the piece, this narrative kept going through my head: Five fancy fish, freely floating, fleetly flitting, and fitly finning from Fiji to France, from Finland to Formosa. Fascinating, friendly…and flagrantly flirting! -- Fresh Fish!
I had notions of somehow including that text via free-motion quilting, but I’m just not that good! Maybe one day.
12"x26"
Enjoy, and feedback welcomed.
Robert Hartley
Great job. Like your techniques with the paints and stamps.
ReplyDeleteGreat idea as well as good job.
ReplyDeleteFabulous and fantastic! I love the colors, the F and the swimming fish.
ReplyDeleteLovely colors, and a nice combination of techniques. And I'd like to see that alliterative line on it - maybe using a micron pen, around the edges?
ReplyDeleteThis is a fun piece, Robert. The more I look at it the more I see. The fish stamp is great and adds another layer of visual interest. I, too would like to see the alliteration included on the quilt, at least in part.
ReplyDeleteThis is a really fine piece of ART! Big congratulations.
ReplyDeleteThis really looks like an underwater scene!
ReplyDeleteI like the dimension created by stamping the fish over the letter.
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